Curd-mill.



Patented Oct. 28, |902. J. W. FRAZER.

CURD MILL.

(Application filed Feb, I7, 1902.) (No Model.)

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JAMES W. FRAZER, OF FRAZER, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MICHAEL LYONS, OF FRAZER, WISCONSIN.

CURD-IVIILL.

SPECFIGATION formingpart of Letters Ratent No. 712,187, dated October 28, 1902.

Application filed February 17, 1902. VSerial No. 94,385. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern.-

Be itknown that LJAMES W. FRAZER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Frazer, in the county of Shawano and vState ofl Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cord-Mills; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The improvements consist in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed, the obj ect of the invention being to provide simple economical mills for the disintegration of curd without crushing the same, whereby loosening of butter-fat in said curd is avoided.

Figure l of the drawings represents a trans` verse section view of a curd-mill in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 2, a transverse section View of the mill, the latter View beingindicated by line 2 2 in the rst ligure.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A indicates a frame that in practice sets on a receptacle for cut curd or is otherwise supported over the same. A horizontal rear coverB on the frame serves as a feed-table for slabs of curd, and forward of the table is an inclined curd-support C on said frame. Parallel brackets D of the frame are provided with bearings for a main shaft and a series of counter-shafts. A link belt E is trained on sprocket-wheels F' G H' I', fast on main shaft F and the counter-shafts G H I, the arrangement of the belt being such that rotation of shaft I-I is opposite that of the other shafts in train therewith. A crank J is shown in connection with the main shaft for the application of hand-power to drive the mill; but said mill may be organized for drive by other power.

Shafts G H are parallel, and spaced apart on these shafts to rotate therewith are cutting-disks K L, so arranged that those on one of the shafts lap those on the other. Disks L onshaft H project upward through slots in curd-support C, and knives M on radial arms N of shaft I cut past the lower forward edgewith a counter-shaft P, for which brackets D of the mill-frame are provided with bearings,

' and a roller Q, fast on the latter shaft, has

clearance in a slot of the rear frame-cover or curd-table B above specified. Pegs R radiate from roller Q through the table-slot to facilitate feed of a curd-slab that is slit by the disks K L into longitudinal strips, these strips being cut by the knives M into sections of predetermined length, the longitudinal and transverse cuts being clean and smooth. Hence crushing of said curd and loosening of butter-fat therein is avoided.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A curd-mill comprising a frame having a slotted rear cover-piece constituting a curdtable, a rotary curd-feeder having clearance in the table-slot, an inclined curd-support forward of said table, upper and lower shafts, cutting-disks fast on the shafts at intervals of the same, the lower disks being extended through curd-support slots to lap the upper disks, another shaft provided with radial arms, knives in connection with the arms to cut past the forward lower edge of said curd- .support, a main shaft, and gearing connecting the several shafts, this gearing being such thatthe curd-feeder and a disk-shaft are r0- tated in an opposite direction to that of the other shafts.

Intestimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Cecil,4 in the county of Shawano and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES W. FRAZER.

Witnesses:

J. H. KUEHL, HARRIET C. FREEBORN. 

